Install & Update Linux Kernel 5.0 RC1 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint System

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

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Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Linux 5.0 lands with added Nvidia Turing RTX, AMD FreeSync support

LINUX HAS been updated to a brand new version number, something that creates more excitement in users than in Linus Torvald's mind.

Linux 5.0 has hit rc1, meaning that within weeks (roughly seven or eight), it will be the stable kernel for the various operating systems that depend on it.

Despite the renumbering being as arbitrary as ever (he's been thinking of changing this for the last four versions) there are actually a whole bunch of new features to talk about.

AMD FreeSync and Raspberry Pi touchscreen support have been added, there's early support for the Nvidia RTX Turing GPUs, and Logitech's high-resolution scrolling from its high-end mice.

There's support for a crop of new ARM processors too, with NXP PowerPC processors finally getting their Spectre V2 patches.

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Update / Upgrade Linux Kernel 5.0 RC1 on Ubuntu System :

To install/update Linux Kernel 5.0 RC1 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Linux Mint 19.1, Elementary OS 5 'Juno', Peppermint, Deepin 15.7, Linux Lite 4.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc1_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_all.deb \\ https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc1-generic_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb \\ https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc1-lowlatency_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb \\ https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-050000rc1-generic_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb \\ https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-050000rc1-lowlatency_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb \\ https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-modules-5.0.0-050000rc1-generic_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb \\ https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1/linux-modules-5.0.0-050000rc1-lowlatency_5.0.0-050000rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb